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PRINCE v. FIRMAN

No. 89-213.

584 A.2d 8 (1990)

Kenneth PRINCE, et al., Appellants, v. John FIRMAN, et al., Appellees.

District of Columbia Court of Appeals.

Decided December 11, 1990.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Edmund H. Feldman, Washington, D.C., with whom Jeffrey Nadel, Culver City, Cal., was on the brief, for appellants.

Louis P. Robbins, with whom C. Francis Murphy, Washington, D.C., and John E. Prominski, Jr., Fairfax, Va., were on the brief, for appellees.

Before ROGERS, Chief Judge, and STEADMAN and FARRELL, Associate Judges.

STEADMAN, Associate Judge:

The question presented in this appeal is whether a District of Columbia statutory provision that church property revert to the contributors of the property upon dissolution of the church violates the free exercise clause of the First Amendment.1 The provision in question, D.C.Code § 29-911 (1981), is part of a chapter dealing with "Religious Societies" and reads:

Upon the dissolution of any society...

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